Pictures courtesy of Mandy Cheuk, Simon Lu, Kai Tan, Cynthia Koo, and yours truly. With contributions by Cynthia Koo. If it’s not already playing, press play. And then start reading. “…Because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones...

Remember 8 months ago when we took a detour sidetrip with our 5 hour layover in Frankfurt? Well it’s deja vu all over again, this time with a different group of 16 people (with the exception of Cynthia coming again, of course)! I’ll spare you the repost of...

Last moments before hopping on a 3hr bus from Krakow to Warsaw: A concert behind the Cloth Building in Krakow city center Pig knuckle for dinner On our way to the bus to Warsaw So it’s 3am and you’ve arrived at Frederic Chopin Airport in...

It’s the bleakness of the place that startles you first. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) – The "Gate of Death" The gas chambers There’s nothing more I can write about Auschwitz that hasn’t already been written: It really is...

After crossing the Polish border, we arrived in Krakow in the wee hours of 7am (this is 3 hours before everyone in Poland wakes up), just in time to catch the sunrise. So I woke up and keeping my eyes closed (groggy as hell) I opened the door of the van. This is...

Our last hour in Lviv — a costume party at the Lviv Opera House: Afterwards, it was back on a bus heading to the Polish border town of Medyka. We figured that a bus would be more convenient than a train as buses have an easier time crossing the Polish...

As if our down to the wire panic attack to make the bus to Chernobyl wasn’t enough, it was another down to the last minute effort to make a bus that would take us to the border town of Lviv in Western Ukraine. We ran back to our hostel (and having lost...